Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
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The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.
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If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won't go.
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Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.
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My go-to jeans are old Levi's I've gotten from boyfriends; they're worn-in and really yummy and perfect.
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I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.
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I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.
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I was very young during 'Chachi 420' and don't remember much now.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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Sometimes you should just put down the computer, the phone, and walk away.
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As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.
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When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.
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I don't dig Trump or follow what he has to say, but I find it fascinating that he's surfaced in the political arena. But I'm a Hillary supporter, and I don't go the Trump way.
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Names can be a doorway into knowing who a person is, and that is certainly true of God. A study of His names is a study of who He is and will be for you.
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If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
